Abstract

Conventional optical imaging systems usually utilize several lenses within a precise assembly to eliminate chromatic aberration, which increases the difficulty of system integration. In recent years, with the rapid development of metasurfaces and liquid crystals (LCs), planar optical elements provide feasible solutions to realize flexible light manipulation and lightweight systems. However, there also exists chromatic aberration, which can be corrected but at the cost of a complex device design. Here, a geometric-phase-based axicon lens is utilized to correct chromatic aberration across a broadband wavelength with the assistance of a post-process algorithm. The axicon lens is fabricated through arranging orientations of liquid-crystal molecules with a standard photoalignment technique, and it produces an approximately invariant point spread function (PSF) at several discrete wavelengths, which is used as the prior information to extract the object in the blurred image. In the experiment, the reconstruction quality is significantly improved after the post-process algorithm. We expect our work to provide further development to reduce the dispersion with both the device design and the computational image technique.

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